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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: That was an excellent report from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and I advise the Minister to read it. This is not the first time this morning that questions were posed on Fine Gael's commitment to modest adjustments to Ireland's sick leave regime. I note the Minister did not give me a straight or direct answer earlier. It would provide some reassurance to workers across the country if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: This question is on sick pay.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: There is no doubt that some small businesses are experiencing difficulties at the moment. There will be challenges for businesses to wean themselves off the kind of corporate welfare that has been available over the last few years to maintain the viability of businesses. However, this should not be done at the expense of low-paid workers. We have a problem with low pay in this country....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: The ambition of the new Taoiseach to reset the messaging for Fine Gael and to go back to basics, as some people have described it, is worrying for working people across the country. This is especially the case if it is framed through the lens of worker versus business. That should not be the case. Quite frankly, however, that is how the mood music is being set. This is especially the case...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 58. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he remains committed to the agreed pathway for the implementation of a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17196/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Living Wage (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: First, I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Peter Burke, on his appointment as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, on her appointment, and the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, on his reappointment. Congratulations to all. I ask the Minister if he is still committed to the roadmap and the pathway to a living wage, as set out by the Low...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Referendum Campaigns (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 119. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his position on the planned referendum on the United Patent Court ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17053/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates or patients with addresses in County Louth who are currently on the waiting list for their first formal and direct appointment at the fertility treatment facility for IVF at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin; the average waiting times for a first appointment at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17109/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 285. To ask the Minister for Health if he and the HSE will consider establishing a fertility treatment facility to facilitate patients from the north east who are seeking to avail of publicly funded IVF treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17110/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (18 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates or patients who have applied for treatment to date under the new publicly funded fertility treatment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17111/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I propose that we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: This evening's engagement is with representatives from the Nevin Economic Research Institute and Social Justice Ireland. They are very welcome. The committee has agreed to revisit the indexation of the welfare and taxation system against the background of the recommendations contained in its report on the topic, which was published in July 2022. I welcome: Dr. Tom McDonnell, co-director,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Dr. McDonnell for his contribution. I now invite Mr. John McGeady to make an opening statement on behalf of Social Justice Ireland.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. McGeady. I now open the meeting to the floor. Our first contributor this evening is Deputy Moynihan.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Deputy Moynihan. I call Deputy Donnelly.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I will ask Deputy Patricia Ryan to make a contribution. If there are no other members seeking to come in, I will make a contribution after her.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank the Deputy very much. Mr. McGeady wanted to respond to Deputy Ryan's points.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: I thank Mr. McGeady. I am glad he made the remarks he did because it speaks to some observations I was going to make with regard to the question of adequacy of core weekly payments and our system more generally. We have to start looking at our social protection system through the lens of adequacy rather than simply a non-evidence-based way of generating what the rates might be every year....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: Do the witnesses agree that the decision to introduce a number of once-off payments, as they were described, to complement the inadequate core payments over the past couple of years to assist households through a very difficult period, was, in itself, an admission that core welfare rates are utterly inadequate? My next question is based on that observation. Where do the witnesses think the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: Considering the erosion of the value of the pension in recent years, it really speaks volumes.